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In the real world, where information is abundant and diverse across different modalities, understanding and utilizing various data types to improve retrieval systems is a key focus of research. Multimodal composite retrieval integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Suyan Li , Fuxiang Huang , Lei Zhang

Recent models for cross-modal retrieval have benefited from an increasingly rich understanding of visual scenes, afforded by scene graphs and object interactions to mention a few. This has resulted in an improved matching between the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Andrés Mafla , Rafael Sampaio de Rezende , Lluís Gómez , Diane Larlus , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Text-to-image person retrieval (TIPR) aims to identify the target person using textual descriptions, facing challenge in modality heterogeneity. Prior works have attempted to address it by developing cross-modal global or local alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Min Cao , Xinyu Zhou , Ding Jiang , Bo Du , Mang Ye , Min Zhang

The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bill Psomas , George Retsinas , Nikos Efthymiadis , Panagiotis Filntisis , Yannis Avrithis , Petros Maragos , Ondrej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

Since real-world ubiquitous documents (e.g., invoices, tickets, resumes and leaflets) contain rich information, automatic document image understanding has become a hot topic. Most existing works decouple the problem into two separate tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Peng Zhang , Yunlu Xu , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Jing Lu , Liang Qiao , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Cross-modal retrieval has drawn much attention in both computer vision and natural language processing domains. With the development of convolutional and recurrent neural networks, the bottleneck of retrieval across image-text modalities is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Jianan Chen , Lu Zhang , Qiong Wang , Cong Bai , Kidiyo Kpalma

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is a new and flexible image retrieval paradigm, which can retrieve the target image for a multimodal query, including a reference image and its corresponding modification text. Although existing efforts have…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haokun Wen , Xian Zhang , Xuemeng Song , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie

Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval (RIR) targets retrieval settings where relevance is mediated by latent inferential links between a query and supporting evidence, rather than semantic similarity. Motivated by the emergent reasoning abilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yiyang Wei , Tingyu Song , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a complex task that aims to retrieve images based on a multimodal query. Typical training data consists of triplets containing a reference image, a textual description of desired modifications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chuong Huynh , Jinyu Yang , Ashish Tawari , Mubarak Shah , Son Tran , Raffay Hamid , Trishul Chilimbi , Abhinav Shrivastava

Audio-text retrieval (ATR), which retrieves a relevant caption given an audio clip (A2T) and vice versa (T2A), has recently attracted much research attention. Existing methods typically aggregate information from each modality into a single…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Qian Wang , Jia-Chen Gu , Zhen-Hua Ling

Recently, automatically extracting information from visually rich documents (e.g., tickets and resumes) has become a hot and vital research topic due to its widespread commercial value. Most existing methods divide this task into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zhanzhan Cheng , Peng Zhang , Can Li , Qiao Liang , Yunlu Xu , Pengfei Li , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Image-text matching aims to find matched cross-modal pairs accurately. While current methods often rely on projecting cross-modal features into a common embedding space, they frequently suffer from imbalanced feature representations across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zuhui Wang , Yunting Yin , I. V. Ramakrishnan

Text-to-video retrieval (TVR) aims to find the most relevant video in a large video gallery given a query text. The intricate and abundant context of the video challenges the performance and efficiency of TVR. To handle the serialized video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mengxia Wu , Min Cao , Yang Bai , Ziyin Zeng , Chen Chen , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Composed image retrieval, a task involving the search for a target image using a reference image and a complementary text as the query, has witnessed significant advancements owing to the progress made in cross-modal modeling. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xintong Jiang , Yaxiong Wang , Yujiao Wu , Meng Wang , Xueming Qian

In this paper, we investigate the cross-media retrieval between images and text, i.e., using image to search text (I2T) and using text to search images (T2I). Existing cross-media retrieval methods usually learn one couple of projections,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao , Zhenfeng Zhu , Shikui Wei , Yanhui Xiao , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

The explosive increase and ubiquitous accessibility of visual data on the Web have led to the prosperity of research activity in image search or retrieval. With the ignorance of visual content as a ranking clue, methods with text search…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Qi Tian

As online video content rapidly grows, the task of text-video retrieval (TVR) becomes increasingly important. A key challenge in TVR is the information asymmetry between video and text: videos are inherently richer in information, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zechen Bai , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Pichao Wang , Zheng Zhang , Thomas Brox , Mike Zheng Shou

This paper attempts to discuss the evolution of the retrieval approaches focusing on development, challenges and future direction of the image retrieval. It highlights both the already addressed and outstanding issues. The explosive growth…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Hui Hui Wang , Dzulkifli Mohamad , N. A. Ismail

Reading text from images remains challenging due to multi-orientation, perspective distortion and especially the curved nature of irregular text. Most of existing approaches attempt to solve the problem in two or multiple stages, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Yipeng Sun , Chengquan Zhang , Zuming Huang , Jiaming Liu , Junyu Han , Errui Ding

With the popularity of multimodal techniques, it receives growing interests to acquire useful information in visual forms. In this work, we formally define an emerging IR paradigm called \textit{Visualized Information Retrieval}, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ze Liu , Zhengyang Liang , Junjie Zhou , Zheng Liu , Defu Lian